I am migrating an application from JBoss 4 to JBoss 6.1 EAP. This app uses cxf with spring. The requirement of our customers is that we will not modify (or add) modules for jboss.

There is an additional spring dependency in the jboss cxf module, but by default there is no spring module. It was interesting to me:

• Do I need to add spring module to JBoss?
• Can I add spring banners to my lib application directory?
• What is the best and / or easiest way to get this to work?

If I do not create a spring module and add spring banners to the lib application directory, I get the following error:

09:19:44,203 WARN  [org.jboss.modules] (MSC service thread 1-1) Failed to define class org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet in Module "org.apache.cxf.impl:main" from local module loader @1f06dc3 (finder: local module finder @1b64e6a (roots: C:\dev\jboss-eap-6.1\modules,C:\dev\jboss-eap-6.1\modules\system\layers\base)): java.lang.LinkageError: Failed to link org/apache/cxf/transport/servlet/CXFServlet (Module "org.apache.cxf.impl:main" from local module loader @1f06dc3 (finder: local module finder @1b64e6a (roots: C:\dev\jboss-eap-6.1\modules,C:\dev\jboss-eap-6.1\modules\system\layers\base)))
  at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:427) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:260) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader$1.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:75) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.Module.loadModuleClass(Module.java:526) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:188) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:444) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:432) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:399) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:399) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:374) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:119) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:316) [rt.jar:1.6.0_17]
  at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.6.0_17]
  at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) [rt.jar:1.6.0_17]
  at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.reflect.DeploymentClassIndex.classIndex(DeploymentClassIndex.java:54)
  at org.jboss.as.ee.component.deployers.InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.processComponentConfig(InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.java:85) [jboss-as-ee-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
  at org.jboss.as.ee.component.deployers.InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.deploy(InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.java:77) [jboss-as-ee-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
  at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:120)
  at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811)
  at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [rt.jar:1.6.0_17]
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [rt.jar:1.6.0_17]
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) [rt.jar:1.6.0_17]
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/context/ApplicationListener
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.6.0_17]
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616) [rt.jar:1.6.0_17]
  at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.doDefineOrLoadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:344) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:422) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.Final-redhat-1]
  ... 22 more